by admin | Mar 28, 2024 | Representation, SEW
First, the jacket made me chuckle. Then, it made me think. As its owner sat in the LNP | LancasterOnline video studio March 13 reminiscing with teammates about a state basketball championship that turned 50 this weekend, the white Lancaster Catholic jacket with purple...
by admin | Mar 27, 2024 | Representation, SEW
Now that sponsors and broadcast executives have finally recognized there’s a market for women’s sports and owners have stopped seeing their teams as charity projects, the next step in leveling the playing field is facilities. Specifically, stadiums and arenas of their...
by admin | Mar 26, 2024 | Representation, SEW
Run like a girl. Throw like a girl. Kick like a girl. Keep doing anything like a girl because The Sports Bra in Portland, Oregon, is there to support you. In 2018, Jenny Nguyen and her friends were searching for a sports bar that was screening the NCAA Women’s...
by admin | Nov 16, 2023 | Representation, SEW
The data points on women’s sports — from attendance records, ticket and merchandise sales and viewership numbers — have all pointed in the same direction: Fans and consumers want more. A new survey shows fans are saying they want brands to support women’s sports more,...
by admin | Oct 16, 2023 | Leadership, Pay Equity, Representation, SEW
Billie Jean King is still globetrotting in support of more investment and equity in women’s sports. She attended the Women’s World Cup in Australia, kicked off the player draft for the new women’s professional hockey league in Toronto and is opening an office in...
by admin | Sep 15, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Shortly after leading South Carolina to its first-ever NCAA women’s basketball title and becoming the No. 1 pick in the 2018 WNBA draft, hometown star A’ja Wilson was honored with a statue outside of Colonial Life Arena. Now a two-time MVP with the Las Vegas...
by admin | Jul 1, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Athletes, perhaps more than anyone else, make decisions about their bodies every single day in order to perform their best. They choose how and where to train, who to train with, what to eat and what to wear for optimal performance. They have to time these decisions...
by admin | Jun 23, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
One thing you learn from watching athletes closely is that muscle isn’t power and in fact can be pretty clumsy and useless. Movement is power — mobility. It’s the tremendous sense of movement created by Title IX over the past 50 years that matters. And sometimes the...
by admin | May 19, 2022 | Leadership, Representation, SEW
For women of my generation, born a decade or more after Title IX was passed, the law had an almost mythical air. I often heard it referred to vaguely to explain why every girl I knew played some kind of sport. I doubt whether anyone my age could quote or explain Title...
by admin | May 16, 2022 | Representation, SEW
Everything’s a blur for Atlanta Dream veteran Monique Billings. The WNBA’s 2022 season is nearing, and after a grueling schedule of two-a-day practices, adjusting to a new coach, and “mama bear”-ing a host of star rookies, the forward is taking a breather to get her...
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